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The People of the State of New-York,
To all to whom these Presents shall come:
KNOW YE, That pursuant to the Constitution
and Laws of our said State, We have appointed and constituted, and by these
Presents, do appoint and constitute William ?. Neef, Ensign in the 19th
Regiments of Riflemen of our said State, (with rank from August 14th, 1832)
to hold the said Office in the manner specified in and by our said Constitution
and Laws.
In Testimony whereof, We have caused our Seal for the Military Commissions to be hereun affixed: Witness ENOS T. THROOP, Esquire, Governor of our said State, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy of the ame, at our City of Albany, the 28th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Signed by E.T. Throop
Passed the Adjutant-General’s office.
?? Adjutant-General
John McLean, Post-Master General
United States of America
TO ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS, GREETING:
Know ye, That confiding in the Integrity,
Ability, and Punctuality of Linus Parker, Esq.
I DO APPOINT him a Post-Master, and authorize
him to execute the duties of that Office at
Vienna Oneida County and State of New York
according to the laws of the United States, and such regulations conformable
thereto, as he shall receive from me: TO HOLD the said Office of Post-Master,
with all the Powers, Priviliges and emoluments to the same belonging, during
the pleasure of the Post-master General of the United States for the time
being.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of my Office to be affixed, at Washington City,
the Seventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty five and of the independence of the United States the
forty ninth.
Registered 18th day of March 1825.
Signed by John McLean
Newton Berryman, Clerk
The people of the State of New-York, by the
Grace of God, Free and Independent:
To Linus Parker GREETING:
WE, reposing especial trust and confidence,
as well in your patriotism, conduct and loyatly, in your integrity and
readiness to do us good and faithful service, Have appointed and constituted,
and by these Presents Do appoint and constitute you the said Linus Parker
Adjutant of the 68th Regiment of Infantry of our said State: You are therefore
to observe and follow such orders and directions as you shall from time
to time receive from our General and Commander in Chief of the Militia
of our said State, or any other your superior officer, according to the
Rules and Discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you;
and for so doing this shall be your Commission, for and during our good
pleasure, to be signified by our Council of Appointment.
In Testimony whereof, We have caused our Seal for Military Commissions to be hereunto affixed: Witness our trusty and well-beloved DE WITT CLINTON, Esquire, Governor of our said State, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy of the same, by and with the advice and consent of our said Council of Appointments, and our City of Albany, the 17th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty and in the ? year of our Independence.
Signed by Dewitt Clinton
Passed the Secretary’s Office, the
23 day of February 1820.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS.
VIENNA LODGE, NO. 363
“Friendship, Love, and Truth”
Be it known by these presents,
That Mr. Linus Parker was duly admitted a
MEMBER of our Lodge by ?? on the 16th day of September in the year of our
Lord One thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-eight.
WITNESS our Hands and the Seal of the Lodge.
Ansil L. Johnson, N.G.
A. F. Johnson, V. G.
Countersigned, P. Abbott Sec’y
Vienna, September1848
Deed of sale
Vienna March18 1845 Know all men by these
presents that whereas I have this day sold to Linus Parker my tavern
Starrid Land and appertinances there unto belongingand for a valuable
consideration which I have this dayreceived of the said Linus Parker the
receipt whereof is nerely confessed and acknowledged I do hereby agree
to give to said Linus Parker peacible possession of said premises
within fifteen days from the date hereof which premises are to be
in as good tennutable state of repair. As the sarve are now in and
for the consideration above mentioned I have
sold to said Parker and agree to leave said premises for said Parker
all the Bar and Barroom furniture with the stoves and stove pipe attached
to the same which
stoves are in the two west rooms of
the ______two story part of the house
Sealed and delivered
in the presence of-----Mary Parker
Truman B. Shuty
The People of the State of NEW-YORK
by the Grace of God, Free and Independentt:
To Linus Parker
of the Town of Vienna in the
County of Oneida, send Greeting.
Wheras Maria Sherman
Daughter of Joshua Sherman late of the Town
of Sary in Oneida County, deceased, an Infant under the age of twenty-one
years, and who was fourteen years of age on the 9 day of Jan. hath, by
her petition, presented to Joshua Hathaway Esquire, our surrogate
for our said County of Oneida, represented that she is legally entitled
to real and personal estate in the County of Oneida, in which she was apprehensive
she might sustain less for want of a proper person to secure and
improve the same, and requested aid under the Statute of this State,
authorizing Surrogates to appoint Guardians for Infants." passed
the 9th
day of April 1893: and WHEREAS the said Maria
by her deed , bearing date the 24th day of Jan. ? did elect and choose
you the said Linus to be the Guardian of her person and Estate until
she the said
Maria shall attain to the age of twenty-one
years: AND WHEREAS you the said Linus by an instrument in writing under
your hand bearing-the 24 day of January 1817 now on file in the Office
of the Surrogate,
have consented to accept said Guardianship:
AND we being desirous that the person, interests, concerns and estate
of the said Infant should be well, diligently and faithfully managed
and attended to, DO allow you
the said Linus to be Guardian to the said
Infant, and DO grant unto you the said Linus by these Presents, full power
and authority to take proper and diligent care of said Infant’s person,
education, estate and interests of every kind, for the profit and
benefit of said Infant, until she shall arrive to full age of twenty-one
years, or until your guardianship by these presents created
shall be legally annulled, not to be
intermeddle with anything but what you may
render an account: AND you the said Linus are in all things to discharge
the duty of a Guardian to said Infant, according to the Laws of this State,
and render a just and true account of such guardianship before any
Court having cognizance thereof, when thereunto required. In testimony
whereof, we have caused the Seal of Office of our said Surrogate to be
hereunto affixed.
Witness Joshua Hathaway, Surrogate of the said County, at Kometh 27 day of January in the year of our LORD One Thousand Eight Hundred and seventeen and of our Independence the Forty first.
Joshua Hathaway
Oneida County -
On the first
day of February in the year A.D. 1937 Goodwin Stoddard and Eleazer Whipple,
Elders of the Methodist Episcopal Church came before me and personally
acknowledged that they had executed the above -------- and I certify that
I know the said Goodwin Stoddard and Eleazer Whipple Elders, who made the
said acknowledgement to be the individuals above ascribed and who executed
the said certificate.
Hiram Kinne, Coms. of Deeds of said county.